Indian Health Council's What About Life Podcast

Recently appointed Rincon Fire Department Chief, Chip Duncan, joins David and George to talk about fire preparedness, fire anxieties, and the real-world struggles of our fire fighters. It's an enlightening, inspiring, and honest talk with one of our community's true heroes.

Paul Gonzalez (IHC Behavioral Health Department), whose strong and calming voice opened the podcast 39 episodes ago in prayer, joins the show to talk about how stress and trauma affect how we live, and how we interact with one another.

David, Art and George talk about the warning signs to look out for people in trouble and some steps you can take to offer aid to that person.

Art, George and David have an intimate discussion about the stigmas surrounding the topic of suicide and how the subject can be uncomfortable for some to approach. They provide examples of how to move past these stigmas and discomforts to get help for those in need.

Amanda Chavez, IHC's Director of Behavioral Health joins George, Art and David to discuss the stigmas that surround therapy, the misconceptions about privacy and how important it is to maintain it, and how to talk about suicide (it is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month). All that and more on What About Life!

Yeni L. Palomino, CHIPSPC and Brett Hall join the podcast to talk about the services, programs and partnerships CHIP offers. 

Established in 1995, Community Health Improvement Partners (CHIP) has been a leader in innovative, collaborative solutions to address critical community health issues in the San Diego region. The mission of CHIP is to advance long-term solutions to priority health needs through collaboration and community engagement.

CHIP brings together diverse partners to assess community health needs, educate, and advocate to create policy, systems and environmental change which reduce health disparities. CHIP provides backbone support to plan, coordinate, and support collaborative initiatives to solve our most complex health problems.

CHIP signature programs and initiatives include the Suicide Prevention Council, Resident Leadership Academy, Lemon Grove HEAL Zone, Independent Living Association Recovery Residence Association, and Farm to Institution Center.

https://www.sdchip.org

This week on the What About Life podcast we get to know 97 year old, Pala Elder, and US Armed Forces Veteran Gilbert Mojado. We dive into his time serving during WWII, his near death encounter and we hear about how much he admired and loved his wife.

IHC's very own Dr. Davidson joins the podcast and talks about her 25 year career as a Family Physician, including her 15 years at IHC. She shares her childhood experiences that lead to her interest in being a Doctor, and we get the low-down on her fascination with kitchen magnets and how she's the one who hides Dr. Calac's office rocks. All that and more on What About Life!

Isaiah Thompson joins the podcast to discuss his sports background, his incredible work with Inter Tribal Sports and how they are using sports to change the lives of kids on the reservations.

It's National Immunization Awareness month and IHC's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dan Calac joins the podcast to talk about the truth of vaccines, the importance of them to the individual and to the community. He also breaks down the differences vaccines play in older and younger generations.